Wonder Butter™ Beginnings - Part 5 - Getting Computer Time

After pushing through all the obstacles and hurdles to finally make it to the library each and every time, we still had another challenge to face . . . . getting computer time! Each person that visited the library (and had a valid Muskogee Public Library card), was allowed two (2) one-hour sessions on the computers, per day. There were only a small handful of computers available to the public, and several of those were usually out-of-service on  any given day. Other home school students, college students, researchers, genealogists, etc, seemed to always have all the computers already occupied each time we arrived.

Once in awhile we would get lucky and get a computer immediately. We usually; however, had to go with the other option .... advance sign up for the next available computer. Sometimes that meant a wait of maybe only a few minutes, but other times, it meant a much longer wait, such as two hours!

That didn't mean you always got the computer you signed up for for both one hour sessions, either.  Sometimes you could register for the same computer for both sessions, but usually you had to sign up on one computer for one session, then another for the next session. Each one hour session was signed up for separately and the computer system assigned the computer numbers (each computer was numbered). This meant that after you got your notebooks, books, pens, pencils, and all your research supplies all spread out and was going really good by the end of that first hour, you had to scoop it all up when the timer on your computer ran out, get up, and move to another computer where you had to try to remember where you were at and start all over. You had to move your belongings and materials quickly, because someone else was usually waiting for the computer that your time just ran out on.  All this while also trying to contain two hyper, special needs, home-schooled children in a quiet library and keep them on task with their school work..  But I was determined. None of those hassles were going to stop me from getting my research done so that I could develop my first skin cream.

Thank you for stopping in and Stay Tuned for Part 6 where I discuss how we occupied our time during those long waits for a computer session.  Have a great day!

Wonder Butter™ Beginnings - Part 1

The construction of our new Bath and Body kitchen is coming along nicely. In projects like this, though, something always comes along to slow things down, but we are still progressing and I can hardly wait for it to be finished! I look forward to getting all of my great Wonder Butter™products back on the shelves and in our online stores.

While we are constructing our new kitchen, I am going to take the opportunity to tell the story of the beginning of  Wonder Butter™ . . . . .  why I created this wonderful, natural skin loving butter and how Wonder Butter™ grew into an entire, very large, product line. Here we go . . . . .



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It was early in the year of 2003. After more than 20 years of marriage, I had just gone through a very long, extremely emotional, super high stress, exhausting beyond words divorce. The emotional strain, extreme lack of sleep, and off the charts stress took a huge tole on my skin. People tend to forget that our skin is our largest organ and all of these factors have a huge effect on it. We really should be much kinder to our skin throughout all of our life, not wait until we start seeing the tell tale signs.

I began noticing that small lines were starting to form at the outer corners of my eyes, across my cheeks, forehead, and here and there all around my face. I also noticed that my skin on my face had become very course and rough. This horrified me! I was barely 40, starting life over as a single mom, and I suddenly felt like I looked like an old lady!  So what did I do?

The next time I was in town running errands, I purchased my first jar of . . . . anti-wrinkle cream! I could hardly wait to get home with that new little jar of  "magic". Once home, I sat right down with my new skin cream that I had high hopes for, carefully read the instructions, eagerly opened the jar and applied it all over my face, exactly as the instructions stated. I was excited and had such high expectations for that little jar of skin cream.



In just a matter of minutes my face began to feel strange . . . . . . then my face began to burn . . . . the burning grew and grew . . . . . then hard pain set into my face. I ran to look in the mirror and my face was so red and swollen it looked like it would begin bleeding at any moment! Did I apply it incorrectly? What did I do wrong?

I read everything on the jar again, over and over and over ..... no, I had done everything correctly. Over the next week, I tried that anti-wrinkle cream a couple of more times, each time getting the same, horrific results, except that it was worse each and every time. I started to research to see what the problem might be. Everything I came up with seemed to suggest that the reaction I was getting was fairly common among anti-wrinkle creams. COMMON?!?!?!? No way! That just couldn't be right. Turned out, as I understood from my research, that many of the commercial anti-wrinkle creams on the market work by sloughing off, burning off, etc, the old, the damaged and the dead skin cells on your skin/face to get down to the fresh, new skin underneath. Oh, my . . . . there just had to be a better way. And so, my journey to find that better way began.

Stay tuned for "Part 2" of Wonder Butter™ Beginnings 

Thanks for stopping in!

Another Wonder Butter™ name thief! This time in Louisiana!

Does it ever stop?! When you come up with a great product name and place it on a great product that you have so painstakingly created, are people going to forever be trying to steal your product concept and product name?!  It gets old, but I will continue to fight the battle to protect my Wonder Butter™ product name.

I, Anna M. Watts, am the Original and ONLY creator of Wonder Butter™ natural bath, body and beauty products and more. I have spent years in the research and development of my product line., and I am proud of how my products have helped so many people have more comfortable daily lives, naturally.

I have trademarked and copyrighted the names Wonder Butter™ and Anna's Wonder Butter™. These names are my property, are solely for my business use, and I have not given my permission to anyone else to use them. Yet once again, someone else has stolen my Wonder Butter™ product name and concept combo and are attempting to pass it off as their own! These people are Kevin Holden, Georgia Holden and Jade Holden (business based at: 36510 Court Ave., Prairieville, LA, 70769, 805-443-7273 - strange, that is a California number) and they  DO NOT have permission to use my Wonder Butter™ name, nor product concept, and this will be dealt with! Their Wonder Butter product is an imposter and is in no way associated with me nor my high quality Wonder Butter™ product line. I have asked them to cease using my Wonder Butter™ product name and they have refused. They have refused to communicate with me and are also blocking me from every place I attempt communication with them. None of this is acceptable!

I have poured my heart, sole and energies into creating and building my Wonder Butter™ products over a period of well over a decade. I will not sit by and allow anyone to take any part of it. And I will not let anyone tarnish my Wonder Butter™ name with an inferior imposter/copycat product. I am very proud of the top quality Wonder Butter™ family of products I have created with its countless product members. I look forward to continuing the growth of my great customer base and the growth of my already large Wonder Butter™ product line.

This, this, this, this, and this  ARE NOT my Wonder Butter™. I am not associated with these people in any way, shape or form. None of them (Georgia Holden, Kevin Holden, Jade Holden, Alison Holden, Just Three LLC, anyone connected to them, Hola Nola Foods, nor anyone else) have permission to use my product concept, formulations, Wonder Butter™ name, nor anything else associated with my Wonder Butter™ products. MY Wonder Butter™ products are the ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC,  and ONLY Wonder Butter™ products on the market. Any other bath, body, beauty, skin care, and the like, products carrying the Wonder Butter / Wonder Butter™ name are imposters, copy cats, frauds, etc. . I would greatly appreciate it if you, my valued readers and customers, would let me know if you ever see one of these look-alike, imposter Wonder Butter / Wonder Butter™ products being sold anywhere, in any state.  I take great pride it the fact that my Wonder Butter™ line carries a very positive reputation. I do not want that reputation marred by anyone!

Thank you so much! And may My, Anna's Wonder Butter™ products bring your skin and body much joy and happiness!

Wonder Butter™ Family and a Brand New Kitchen

Hello, Everybody! We want to thank everyone that has stuck with us through all of our big, long move. As some of you know, I had to move my farm, it was a very long, hairy, mind boggling adventure, and during the process, most of my Wonder Butter™ making supplies got packed up.

I continued to make my Wonder Butter™ products on a much smaller scale for anyone that wanted to purchase them, but I had to scale down a bit until we finished the move. I want to give an extra big THANK YOU to my regular customers that never missed placing their regular order... THANK YOU! ! !

We are now getting stuff unpacked and set back up to once again make my fantastic, entire line of Wonder Butter™ bath and body products, full scale. Not only are we setting back up, but we are clearing off land space and building a separate bath and body kitchen! We will then have one building all to itself where we can make all of my fun and fabulous products that you have grown to love and trust. This will be better in so many ways, including making production much more fast and efficient, which will result in getting your products to you much more quickly.

As we get back into full production, we will also have some great surprises ahead! During all of this lengthy move, I often had to take sit down breaks. Well, as many of you know, I can't just sit down and do nothing. So what did I do during some of my rest breaks? I continued to research and create NEW Wonder Butter™ formulas! Yes, there will be several fantastic new products joining the already large Wonder Butter™ family! We are really excited about these. We are sure you will be to.

So stay tuned, watch for the opening of our new kitchen and the launch of our new Wonder Butter™ products to our already big and beautiful Wonder Butter™ family.
Have a fantastic day and see you shortly! ! ! ! !

Anna

ANOTHER BATTLE!

  Once again, I am battling to protect my Wonder Butter™ name, as someone thinks they can use it for a product they created almost identical to one of mine. This gets really old. People need to do a very deep research before they chose their product name.
Stay Tuned.   More details tonight.

Update:  Fortunately.... this was able to be resolved with minimal conflict. All is well again with the original and authentic Wonder Butter™ family!

Even Better Wonder Butter™ Lip Butter Formula!

COMING SOON! VERY, VERY SOON! 

I am updating and revising my already fantastic Wonder Butter™ Lip Butter formula. It will be ready just in time for those cold, blistery weather chapped lips. Check back often and I will let you know when it is ready! I can hardly wait myself!

The One, Only & Original Wonder Butter™

I, Anna, am the Original and ONLY creator of Wonder Butter™ natural bath and beauty products and more. I have spent years in the research and development of my product line., and I am proud of how my products have helped so many people have more comfortable daily lives, naturally.

I have trademarked and copyrighted the names Wonder Butter™ and Anna's Wonder Butter™. These names are my property, are solely for my use, and I have not given my permission to anyone else to use them. Unfortunately, someone in Georgia (supposedly) has recently begun using my Wonder Butter™ name. She DOES NOT have permission to use my Wonder Butter™ name and this will be legally dealt with. 

This person has created a product very similar to mine (same product concept) and is using my Wonder Butter name on her product. This IS NOT my Wonder Butter™. I am not associated with this person in any way, shape or form. She does not have permission to use my product concept, formulations, Wonder Butter™ name, nor anything else associated with my Wonder Butter™ products. My Wonder Butter™ products are the ORIGINAL and ONLY Wonder Butter™ products on the market. Any other products carrying the Wonder Butter name are illegal copies, frauds, copycats, imposters. I would greatly appreciate it if you would let me know if you ever see one of these look-alike Wonder Butter products being sold anywhere, in any state. 

Thank you so much! And may Anna's Wonder Butter™ products bring your skin and body much joy and happiness!

Update: The situation appears to have been resolved. Thank you! 

BRAND vs PRODUCT

I need to take a moment to explain the difference between the name of my product line and the name of each, individual product, to clear up a little confusion some people have had.

Wonder Butter™ is my BRAND name. Wonder Butter™ is the name given to my entire line of products. Within my Wonder Butter™ brand name are many product names/types such as, Original Skin Cream, Wonder Butter "Extra", Wonder Butter "Blue", Wonder
Butter "Vapor", Lip Butter, Lip Balm, Lotion Candle, Lotion Bar, a variety of soaps, and the list goes on, along with new products that are always in the works. 

As with  many other brands, one starts out with one product and grows from there. Often times that first product is what people instantly think of when they hear mention of your brand name, thus considering the brand name, the product name. Each person develops their favorite product with that product line and often times, when they hear the brand name, their favorite product comes to mind, associating only that product with the brand name and forgetting there are other products in the line. This is a common occurrence. One great example would be Clorox. Clorox is a brand name with many products under that brand name. Yet when most people hear the word Clorox, they instantly think of bleach. But bleach is simply one of a host of fantastic products carried under the brand name of Clorox.

So once again, Wonder Butter™ is my BRAND name, with a large array of natural products listed under my Wonder Butter™ brand name, most of which are Bath & Beauty products. I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have.

Wonder Butter™ Qualifications

   As many of my regular customers can tell you, I make an array of products from soaps, to lotions, to candles, to knits, and so much more. So what qualifies one of my products to make it into my Wonder Butter™ line, you might ask?

   All of my Wonder Butter™ products have one common denominator, Unrefined Shea Butter. Shea Butter, in its UNREFINED state, is said to contain a multitude of healing properties and antioxidants. I have been so impressed by this natural substance that I decided that I had to include it in all of my Wonder Butter™ products. It is said that when Shea Butter has been  processed and refined, it loses much of it's beneficial properties, while often absorbing and holding traces of the chemicals used in its refining process. Just the thought of the possibility makes me want to run from the processed version.  Only all Natural,  Unrefined Shea Butter will be found in my Wonder Butter™ products.

Of course, other top quality, natural ingredients are also included in my Wonder Butter™ formulas. Most of my formulas also include Extra Virgin Cold Pressed Olive Oil, which is wonderful on skin. The majority of my Wonder Butter™ products are 100% natural.  On a rare occasion I might make one that is approximately only 90% natural, but it will be well marked and will still live up the the quality of the Wonder Butter™ name.  The only thing that might occasionally be added that would break from my 100% natural formulas would be flavoring, fragrance or color. Occasionally a customer may request fragrances, flavors, or even coloring, that are not completely natural. Then if that requested product catches on or generates enough interest, I will leave it in my line to keep all of my customers happy. But the base of my formulas will always be COMPLETELY natural, because we feel that all Natural makes our skin the happiest!

If you see the Wonder Butter™ label on any of my products, you can be certain that you will find natural unrefined Shea Butter in the ingredient list.
Thanks for reading and may you have a healthy, happy day!